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More blathering about the Matrix, specifically, fighting in the Real World and Persephone. (And whoo! What a dress! Only in the Matrix could you wear that still be able to move.)
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Well, we saw it, and it didn’t suck. I was quite pleased with how things turned out, but I’m not yet sure how I feel about the movie as a whole.
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Greg posted the following comment/question, which I quite like and want to address.

2) The Oracle is outside of time. She tells Neo that he is seeing things outside of time. The point is, like the famous question, if God is omniscient and knows what we will do before we do it, how can we have free choice, Neo struggles to understand how anything he does is his own choice. The Oracle is pointing out to him that in the view where there is no time, we have already made the choice (in Neo’s future). The important part is to understand why we made that choice, so that our lives are directed and we aren’t simply reacting to things around us.

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(Originally written Dec 14 2004)

It’s Christmas break, which means travel. Here are some thoughts on the Matrix movies that staved off the boredom of the road.
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I just read a fantastic essay on “The Matrix Reloaded” on Freedom, Determinism, Teleology and Foreknowledge in Matrix: Reloaded
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I found a nice blog on The Matrix at A Little Bit of Nowhere. (It’s Blogger, so of course the permalinks don’t work. Scroll down to Friday, May 23, 2003, and it’s there.

Just so I’ll have them at hand, here is a relisting of the interesting Matrix sites:
Goliath by Neil Gaiman
Philosophy & The Matrix
Gnosis and The Matrix
Matrix Essays
Forget sci-fi and guns – The Matrix is really about religion BBC article
Essay on The Matrix by Mike Athreton
Screenplay for The Matrix

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Murder and “The Matrix”, and Article on FindLaw by Julie Hilden, looks at the issue of movies, violence and crime.
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I read a very interesting piece at Matrix Essays that relates the shorts from the “Animatrix” “Second Renaissance I & II” (SR I & II) to the Matrix movies. I did not like SR I & II, because they are ultra violent, and it bothers me to watch such, so I really didn’t think a lot about them at first (mostly because I was trying to forget the violent scenes I did watch, so I could sleep peacefully).
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